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Syndication

Artists include: Al Jolson, Ada Jones, Bert Williams, the Original Dixiland Jazz Band, the Sousa Band and the Peerless Quartet.

Songs include: Tiger Rag, Nobody, California, Here I Come and Christmas Eve.
Direct download: Leftovers_Number_2.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:53am CDT

Early blues recordings including: Crazy Blues, Saint Louis Blues,Bearcat Blues and Bad Luck Blues.  Performers include: Mamie Smith, Lonnie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey and Charley Patton.
Direct download: 1920s_Blues.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:28am CDT

Christmas records from the early 20th Century.  Including: Ring Out the Bells at Christmas, Silent Night, The Christmas Man Blues and  We Three Kings.
Direct download: christmas_Part_2.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:48pm CDT

Early 20th Century recordings of Christmas music.  Songs include: The Santa Claus Song, Joy to the World, Christmas Morning at Clancy's and The March of the Toys.
Direct download: Christmas_part_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:20pm CDT

Whistling recordings including: Whistle It, The Whistler and His Dog, Listen to the Mockingbird and Pucker Up And Whistle.
Whistlers include: Joe Belmont, Al Jolson, Sibyl Sanderson Fagan and Billy Murray.
Direct download: Whistling.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:42am CDT

Featuring banjoist, Eddie Peabody, jazz guitarist, Eddie Lang and ukulele player Cliff Edwards.

Songs include: Baby Face, Hot Fingers and Will You Remember Me.

Direct download: Banjos_Guitars_and_Ukuleles.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:37am CDT

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Category: -- posted at: 9:56am CDT

Songs with flowers in the title.
Songs include: Tiptoe Through the Tulips, When the Daisies Bloom, Second Hand Rose and the Petunia Quadrille.
Featured performers: Anette Handshaw, Vernon Dalhart, Fanny Brice and the New York Military Band.
Direct download: Say_It_With_Flowers.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:37am CDT

Songs from the last days of World War I and the aftermath.  Songs include:  How You Gonna Keep Em Down on the Farm, Stony Broke in No Man's Land and I've Got My Captain Working For Me Now.
Direct download: Armistice_day.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:15pm CDT

Songs by Stephen Foster.  Including: Oh Susannah, Old Folks at Home and Beautiful Dreamer.
Note: Some of these old recordings contain racial terms that may be offensive to some people.
Direct download: stephen_foster.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:09pm CDT

Recordings of American presidents from Benjamin Harrison to Franklin Roosevelt.
Direct download: American_Presidents.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:18pm CDT

Early recordings of music from Wagner's operas.  Podcast includes selections from Parsifal, Tannhauser, Lohengrin and the ring cycle.
Direct download: Richard_Wagner.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:41pm CDT

Early recordings of marches including: The Wedding March, King Cotton, Marche Slav and The Rakoczy March.
Direct download: More_Marches.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:39am CDT

Episode 26: Celebrating the beginning of the fall season.  Songs include: Shine on Harvest Moon, The Halloween Dance and I'll Be Home at Harvest Time.
Direct download: autumn_songs.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:02am CDT

Comedy links

Mp3s of Cal Stewart's Uncle Josh recordings can be found here: http://www.archive.org/details/CalStewart_part1

http://www.archive.org/details/CalStewart_part2

 

Mp3s of the Avon Comedy Four can be found here:

http://www.archive.org/details/AvonComedyFourwithIrvingKaufman

 

The official Will Rogers web page is here:

http://www.willrogers.org/

 

 

Direct download: comedy_records.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:08am CDT

Early 20th Century comedy.  Performers include: The Avon Comedy Four, Cal Stewart, Bert Williams and Will Rogers.
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:43am CDT

Music by Victor Herbert including The March of the Toys and Gypsy Love Song.
Direct download: Victor_Herbert.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:24pm CDT

Jazz recordings from 1917-1923.  Artists include:  The Original Dixieland Jass Band, King Oliver, W.C. Handy, Eubie Blake and Kid Ory.
Direct download: Early_Jazz.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:20pm CDT

A salute to early Canadan recording artists including: Henry Burr, Eva Gauthier and Henri Lacroix.
Direct download: canadian_music.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:56am CDT

Episode 21: Man's Best Friend.  Songs about dogs including: The Whistler and His Dog and My Old Dog Tray.
Direct download: Mans_Best_Friend.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:23am CDT

Songs from the 13 years when alcohol was illegal in the U.S.

Performers include: Billy Murrary, Ma Rainey, Bubber Miley and Burt Williams.

Direct download: prohibition_songs.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:32pm CDT

Episode 19: California Songs

Songs in praise of California including: California Here I Come and At the Moving Picture Ball. 

Direct download: California_Songs.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:14pm CDT

Songs of the Great War

Here are some sites with  more information about the First World War.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/  This site from the BBC offers a virtual tour inside a trench.

http://firstworldwar.com/ This large site contains biographies of the major players, newsreel footage, diary accounts and video of the battlefields as they look today.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/sashome.html  This Library of Congress site has World War I issues of Stars and Stripes, the official US Army newspaper.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/10/98/world_war_i/199768.stm A second BBC site with audio interviews of veterans.

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/westfront/ypsalient/meningate/lastpost.htm  This page describes the Last Post Ceremony at Ypres, Belgium.  A tribute to fallen soldiers that has been held every day since 1929.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9792310 A photograph of the grave of George Lawrence Price, the last soldier killed during the war.

Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:14am CDT

Songs from the last year of World War I , including Oh How I Hate to Get Up and Is There Still Room For Me Neath the Old Apple Tree?
Direct download: songs_of_the_great_war.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:07am CDT

Songs from the middle years of World War I  including

If You Were the Only Girl and We Don't Want the Bacon.

Direct download: Songs_of_the_Great_War_Part_2.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:34am CDT

     Songs recorded during the early days of World War I.  Music includes:  Pack Up Your Troubles and Your King and Country Want You.
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:05pm CDT

Episode 15 : Songs of the Summer season.  Including: In the Good Old Summer Time, The Last Rose of Summer and Summer Days.
Direct download: Summer_Songs.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:42am CDT

Songs about baseball and the first recording of Rhapsody in Blue.
Direct download: Baseball_and_Gershwin.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:08am CDT

Episode 13.  Sad tales about dying soldiers, unhappy wives and neglected children.  Songs include: Is There Any Room In Heaven For a Little Girl Like Me?
Direct download: tearjerkers.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:37am CDT

Songs about trains including Casey Jones and The Wreck of the Old 97.

Performers include Vernon Dalhart, Billy Murray and Moonshine Kate.

Direct download: Episode_12_Railroad_Songs.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:23am CDT

Episode 11:  Early African-American recording artists.

Performers include: Bert Williams, James Reese Europe, Ma Rainey and the Fisk University Jubilee Singers.

Direct download: african_american_performers.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:21pm CDT

Recordings left off of previous podcasts.

Performers include: Enrico Caruso  Al Jolson   John McCormack  and

Ada Jones

Direct download: Episode_10_Leftovers.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:51pm CDT

An all waltz show.  Songs include  In the Good Old Summertime, School Days, Waltz Me Around Again Willie and My Wild irish Rose.
Direct download: Epidode_9__Waltzes.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:27am CDT

The story of the Indestructible Phonography Company.

Music includes:  Asleep in the Deep

                         I'm Fovever Blowing Bubbles

 Keep Away From the Fellow Who Owns an Automobile

 

Direct download: Episode_8__Indestructible_Records.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:39am CDT

All march episode featuring the John Phillip Sousa Band.
Direct download: Epidode_7__Marches.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:23am CDT

This week:   songs by Al Jolson, the Tuskegee Institute Singers and Arthur Collins.  Plus: a classic hymn.

 

Direct download: music_from_100_years_ago_al_jolson.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:24pm CDT

These sites have information about and photos of the Stroh violin: http://historywired.si.edu/object.cfm?ID=46 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroh_violin
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:18am CDT

Unusual instrumentals including: bagpipes, ocarina, a Stroh violin and a lap steel guitar.
Direct download: Music_100_Years_Ago_Episode_5__Oddball_Instrumentals.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:01am CDT

A tribute to female singers including Ada Jones, Helen Trix and Sophie Tucker.
Direct download: Music_100_Years_Ago_Episode_4_Ladies_Edition.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:44pm CDT

This week : a xylophone solo, a barbershop quartet, the 100th anniversery of Anchors Aweigh and a century old Mozart record.
Direct download: Epidode_3_--_Music_From_100_Years_Ago--__Anchors_Aweigh.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:29am CDT

An all Irish episode featuring two songs by John McCormack.
Direct download: music_from_100_years_ago_irish_ed1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:04pm CDT

Music played: You're a Grand Old Flag A Bunch of Rags Celese Aida Flying Arrow
Direct download: music_from_100_years_ago.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:39am CDT